The current definition of landscape is something like, 'a portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including the objects in it'.

The very contemporary sounding Landskip was a late sixteenth century colloquial English term for this. A time when the landscape was still thought of as mere background, the space beyond the important concerns of mind and soul. Exploitable, of course, or even hostile when not.

Little has changed.

Although some of the 'mere background' has become culturally appreciated, an integral element of the mind and soul, of identity even, important enough to be carefully defined, designated, protected, recreated, managed, usually in accordance with the current romantic notions of how it once was, the rest is still very obviously Landskip. This real landscape remains almost oblivious to most, intimately known by a few. As has always been, it is within this space that the real world is reflected, observed, expressed, rather than in the ideals of the other.

Hence Landskip became the perfect title for a series of projects concerned with the experience of these spaces and what they reveal. A result of intimate familiarity.

"all that which in a picture is not of the body or arguement thereof is Landskip".  From the Catholic scholar Thomas Blount's Glossographia 1656.